The Justin Trudeau-led Canadian authorities on Friday denied a report linking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval to legal actions in Canada, saying it’s “speculative and inaccurate”.
Nationwide safety and intelligence advisor to Justin Trudeau, Nathalie G Drouin, in a press release, mentioned that the Canadian authorities is “not conscious” of any proof of the claims made by a Canadian media home citing unnamed officers.
“On October 14th, due to a major and ongoing menace to public security, the RCMP and officers took the extraordinary step of creating public accusations of significant legal exercise in Canada perpetrated by brokers of the Authorities of India. The Authorities of Canada has not acknowledged, neither is it conscious of the proof, linking Prime Minister Modi, Minister Jaishankar, or NSA Doval to the intense legal exercise inside Canada,” the assertion learn.
On Thursday, a report by Canada’s ‘Globe and Mail’ newspaper quoted unnamed Canadian officers claiming that PM Modi was “conscious” of the plot to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar – who was killed in Vancouver final 12 months. The report additionally claimed that the Indian nationwide safety advisor and the exterior affairs minister had been additionally within the loop of the plot.
India responded sharply to those claims instantly with Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal calling the report a “smear marketing campaign”.
“Such ludicrous statements made to a newspaper purportedly by a Canadian authorities supply ought to be dismissed with the contempt they deserve. Smear campaigns like this solely additional injury our already strained ties,” Mr Jaiswal mentioned.
India-Canada diplomatic disaster after Nijjar’s killing
The India-Canada diplomatic relations worsened final 12 months after the killing of Nijjar, a Sikh separatist and the mastermind behind the banned terror outfit ‘Khalistan Tiger Power’. The diplomatic disaster kickstarted after Mr Trudeau accused “Indian brokers” of being concerned within the killing.
In line with the Canadian Prime Minister, he had “credible allegations” of India’s hand within the Nijjar’s killing.
Nevertheless, India has repeatedly rejected any hyperlink to the homicide of Nijjar and accused Mr Trudeau’s administration of pandering to Khalistani sympathisers for political achieve of their nation. India has additionally termed the allegations “absurd” and “politically motivated”.
Final month, the Canadian authorities but once more linked Indian Excessive Commissioner Sanjay Verma and another diplomats to the killing. To this, the Centre rejected the claims and identified that regardless of repeated requests for proof, Canada had did not share any substantive proof to substantiate its allegations.